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Tori Brown started out as a client and quickly became part of our team! You'll find her on the desk most evenings and on Saturday mornings. Brave & funny, she shares 26 (there are apparently more!) of her embarrassing Method 360 Moments!

If you're a client at Method, you've lived the unfortunate experience of being a gremlin of a human, otherwise known as a preteen. The age of, “I SWEAR TO GOD MOM IF YOU EVEN UTTER MY NAME IN PUBLIC, I may just die of embarrassment.”

I would like to say I am now a grown-up, mature, adult person without lingering reservations, but that would be an absolute lie. Whenever I try something new, I feel my preteen self rear her self-conscious head.

I cannot be the only one who feels this way. We all avoid new things because we are clumsy, bumbling beings with a tendency to say, do, and be the “wrong” thing.

However, the best parts of life exist in the places we have the most potential for embarrassment. To get beyond it, we have to learn to rise above it. In an effort to be painfully transparent and supportive, here is an extensive list of the embarrassing thing I have done at Method 360 so far…

Walked into the door

ALL THE WARDROBE MALFUNCTIONS including…

My tank top being too low while my sports bra is also too low. (I may have flashed some of you. My bad.)

A sports bra without any lining in a very cold room. (Need I say more?)

Writing a list of all the embarrassing things I’ve done at the gym for everyone who goes to said gym to read.

This list will only grow as I challenge myself. Kickboxing is starting. A whole new world of embarrassing things I can do! Soft Rock Vinyasa Yoga with Trish on a Sunday? Yes, I can already feel preteen me DYING. The important thing to remember is that preteen me thought sparkly white eye shadow and Simple Plan were super duper cool, so maybe I shouldn’t listen to her, and you shouldn’t listen to your embarrassment either.

Nervous about doing something? Find me. I will happily join you & add to my list. Trying to avoid embarrassment is to lead to a boring life. I’m not here for that. So, preteen me can just take a seat because I’ve got some weird Napoleon Dynamite dancing to do.

Join Tori (or any of us, really) to get through your awkward, tough, and intimidating moments in your first class! We're here with a smile, a high five, and mortifying stories of our own!

I feel your pain...I have had wardrobe malfunctions as well...like actual breakage...and oh yeah the day I worked out half the class with my clothes inside out.

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Jen Reed

9/27/2016 06:14:43 pm

I DID bite it while doing box jumps. Except - one time wasn't enough so I went ahead and did it not one but TWO.MORE.TIMES! It's one of those moments when you just pray to yourself that no one saw (even though you secretly know that EVERYONE saw) and count down the seconds until this station can be over!

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Leslie Smith

9/27/2016 06:29:22 pm

Yes... the medicine ball, that you forgot bounces... until you slam it as HARD AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN at the floor, directly below your face. No one has reflexes that good. Not even Bruce Lee. I'm sure of this. And to all of you that witnessed the glory of my bloody nose and injured ego... you're welcome.

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MegCarolyn

9/28/2016 07:56:20 pm

You are one of wisest "non-preteens" I have the privilege of knowing. And as hokey as it sounds you are my hero and my motivation on a daily basis. Thank you!Thank you for your honesty and inspiration!

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